Chris Hughes Quotes
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It takes time for people to get to know a cause or an organization.
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My theory of change is that there are already millions of people working day in and day out on the ground to deliver on promises on global change. We need to strengthen those institutions and help those people in the field.
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I really want to move away from the old model in which you have to rely on people giving $10 after a humanitarian crisis to a newer model where people give money but also their time and their skills, whatever they have, to the causes that are personally meaningful to them well before the crisis moment presents itself.
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My real big Internet claim to fame is the fact that I was first to jailbreak the iPhone.
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Mostly what I'm focused on is finding people who are younger who haven't built companies before but have a good idea.
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Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading it on a tablet.
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I'm the kind of person that needs to think things through. But when I know what I want to do, I really know.
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You can have the best technology in the world, but if you don't have a community who wants to use it and who are excited about it, then it has no purpose.
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I was trying to figure out how to use the skills I had developed in the world of social change.
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Maybe it is because of Facebook or something else, but I have been interested in journalism for a long time.
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You learn pretty fast that there is no magic solution to poverty.
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By 2007, we were finally living in a culture where people get what networks are and what technology can do to connect people.
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I exercise most days.
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I was on significant financial aid, an only child, with parents who didn't have much living in North Carolina.
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As a child I wanted to become an architect.
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What's really interesting is the introduction of the tablet - not just the iPad, but the Nook and the Kindle. While they aren't going to solve all of our problems, I do think they make it easier for people to pause, linger, read and really process very important ideas.
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No, I'm not running for office someday.
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Many of us get our news from social networks, blogs, and daily aggregators.
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I look up to a lot of people, but outside of my parents, I've never really had a mentor.
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I didn't know anything about Silicon Valley.
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I knew I wanted to do something at the nexus of what I call global development and technology.
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You name it, I'm interested in a lot of things.
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The more connected that individual is to an issue they care about, the higher probability there is they will stay involved over a longer period of time.
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I think Twitter is great.